This author wrote a novella in which he likened T'kama's love for a castaway from Vasco da Gama's crew to the love of a certain mythological giant for the nymph Tethys. In addition to The First Life of Adamastor, he wrote a massive work about Thomas Landman's attempt to assassinate his nation's president, An Act of Terror. Galant kills a member of the van der Merwe family in his novel about an 1825 slave revolt outside of Cape Town, A Chain of Voices. He is best known for a novel which sees the murder of the janitor Gordon Ngubene inspire Ben Du Toit to fight the Special Branch. For 10 points,
This author wrote a novella in which he likened T'kama's love for a castaway from Vasco da Gama's crew to the love of a certain mythological giant for the nymph Tethys. In addition to The First Life of Adamastor, he wrote a massive work about Thomas Landman's attempt to assassinate his nation's president, An Act of Terror. Galant kills a member of the van der Merwe family in his novel about an 1825 slave revolt outside of Cape Town, A Chain of Voices. He is best known for a novel which sees the murder of the janitor Gordon Ngubene inspire Ben Du Toit to fight the Special Branch. For 10 points, name this South African author of A Dry White Season.
This author wrote a novella in which he likened T'kama's love for a castaway from Vasco da Gama's crew to the love of a certain mythological giant for the nymph Tethys.
{André Brink}